Most Beautiful Tennis Babes of All Time

Former World No. 1 Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova won her first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 2004 at the age of 17. In the two years that followed, Sharapova won eight titles on the WTA Tour and had two brief stints as the World No. 1. She won her second Grand Slam title at the 2006 US Open. Sharapova has lived in the United States since moving there at the age of nine, but retains her Russian citizenship.

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__START__Gabriela Sabatini

Gabriela Sabatini was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s. She spiced up the tennis court with Latin glamour. Sabatini won the 1990 US Open women's singles title, 1988 Wimbledon women's doubles title, 1988 and 1994 WTA Tour Championships, and a silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games.

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__START__Anna Kournikova

Anna Kournikova's celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis players worldwide. Her marital status has been the talking point since a long time. There were conflicting rumours about her 'affairs' with ice hockey stars Pavel Bure and Sergei Fedorov. In 2001, Kournikova started dating pop star Enrique Iglesias, and there were inconsistent gossip about the status of their relationship.

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__START__Martina Navratilova

The Czech-American tennis player won a record 59 Grand Slam titles. Martina Navratilova is a reached 11 consecutive Grand Slam singles finals (second all-time to Steffi Graf's 13). Originally from Czechoslovakia, she was stripped of her citizenship when, in 1975 at the age of 18, she asked the United States for political asylum and was granted temporary residency. Navratilova became a US citizen in 1981.

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__START__Steffi Graf

Who can forget the stunning Steffi Graf? The former World No. 1 and the winner of 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second only to Margaret Court's 24. She is the only player to have won all four Grand Slam singles tournaments at least four times each. Graf retired in 1999 while she was World No. 3.